Jasper, I am a fair amount younger than you, but I remember another famous player from your high school -- Kenny Anderson. His Archbishop Malloy team beat the best basketball team I have ever seen -- Hillcrest High with Sullivan and crew -- in a tremendous Beach Ball Tourney Championship game.
Well, you sure opened the floodgates to Memory Lane with that one. I wound up watching about 5 videos back from the days, boys. All the tissues in the house are gone and I am into the t shirt draw. I know Brian from alumni events, etc. but Kevin Joyce and I were good friends for years; even working together for a few years. I even watched a John Roche tribute. Those guys played well after me but Roche played for LaSalle HS, who was an archrival of ours in my day. Our record in 53-54 was 29-1. LaSalle was the one. I'll stop thinking about that one when the coffin is being lowered.FUBeAR wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:34 pmThat was Jasper's schoolmate...Get your tissues ready...CharlieFU wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:42 pmCan’t be sure of the year. But ACC championship game—‘71?—-SC beat NC 52-51(?) on jump ball. SC player 6 inches shorter out jumps nc player to get the tip and score.FUBeAR wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 12:50 pmGrowing up in Raleigh, NC as a BIG NC State basketball fan...I was certainly NOT a fan of those 2 guys...they were evil, mean, dirty (but, John Roche was dirtier)....and VERY GOOD PLAYERS! [NOTE for the young peeps: South Carolina used to be in the ACC...and ONLY the Tournament Champion made the NCAA Tourney. The 'fights' were very bitter back in those days...and those ACC Tournament games felt like 'life & death' affairs to a 10-year old Fan...and many adults]Jasper wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:55 amI live locally, am a sports fan and am particularly fond of the level of student athletes that represent this university. I think that Furman is a good example of everything that is right about college sports these days and have season tickets to 5 of its sports programs. I am simply a fan.
BTW, two of the best players ever to play for South Carolina were from my HS in NYC: Brian Winters and Kevin Joyce. They won a few games in high school as well and I can assure you were highly recruited scholarship players coming out of 8th grade. Private schools then and now can do that.
BTW - THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF FURMAN ATHLETICS!!!!! Finding a way to connect and attract more local non-Furman Alumni to be FANS of FU Athletics should be a top priority, IMO, for Furman Athletics AND Furman University. Hopefully, we/they are doing a good job of showing you how much they appreciate your support.
I cried. I was a 9 year old die hard Heels fan.
That was a heckuva jump ball film, Charlie. But the most famous of that genre involved my old teammate from HS, Tommy Kearns who played for the 1957 North Carolina team that won it all. Tommy was a "generous" 5'11 and Coach Maguire sent him out for the opening jump in the championship game against Wilt Chamberlain ( 7'4"") of Kansas. It wasn't quite as dramatic an outcome as Winter's classic leap in your film though. That tape is shown a lot. That Tar Heel team had more Yankees on it than were with Sherman. In that younger world, those games really WERE matters of life and death, BeAR. You weren't imagining it at all.
